Craig Taylor

The former chief executive of AstraZeneca attacks Pfizer’s attempt to take over his old company, saying it will suck the lifeblood out of the firm.
BBC News – Business

Egyptian presidential favourite Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has vowed that the banned Muslim Brotherhood group “will not exist”, if he wins.
BBC News – Middle East

Political strategist Juan Jose Rendon quits the Colombian president’s re-election campaign amid allegations that he took money from drug dealers.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rules out holding a new round of talks in Geneva in a bid to defuse the Ukraine crisis.
BBC News – Europe

Ex-BBC presenter Stuart Hall pleads guilty to indecently assaulting a girl under 16, but denies 20 further charges.
BBC News – UK

Climate change is having significant financial, ecological and human health impacts across the US, according to a new report.
BBC News – US & Canada

Oscar Pistorius’ closest neighbours say they heard a man crying loudly on the night he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, as his murder trial continues.
BBC News – Africa

Portugal’s prime minister says the country will exit its three-year bailout this month without needing an emergency line of credit.
BBC News – Business

Yemeni security forces kill 37 suspected al-Qaeda militants in an offensive in the country’s south, the defence ministry says.
BBC News – Middle East

Opposition leader Juan Carlos Varela wins the presidential election in Panama with almost 40% of the votes.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Ukrainian police free pro-Russian activists detained after Friday’s deadly unrest in Odessa as a large crowd attacks the city’s police HQ.
BBC News – Europe

Former British number one tennis player Elena Baltacha dies of liver cancer at the age of 30.
BBC News – UK

Eleven people have been injured, one critically, after female acrobats fell from an aerial platform at a circus in the US state of Rhode Island.
BBC News – US & Canada

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial resumes on Monday after a two-week break, with his defence team continuing its case.
BBC News – Africa

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation pays $ 415m for Harlequin, a Canadian publisher of ‘bodice ripper’ romance fiction.
BBC News – Business

Gunmen in the Libyan city of Benghazi have raided a security headquarters, sparking clashes in which at least nine people died, officials say.
BBC News – Middle East

Authorities in Honduras are investigating the deaths of at least seven children who may have been murdered after refusing to join criminal gangs.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Pro-Russian sympathisers voice anger at the torching of a trade union building in the Ukrainian coastal city of Odessa where dozens died.
BBC News – Europe

The arrest of Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams is part of an effort by some police officers to “settle old scores”, NI’s deputy first minister says.
BBC News – UK

Samsung is ordered to pay $ 119.6m (£71m) to Apple by a US court for infringing two of its patents, in the latest lawsuit involving the two tech giants.
BBC News – US & Canada